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Genus of gastropods

Syrnola
Drawing of a shell of Syrnola aganea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Subfamily: Turbonillinae
Genus: Syrnola
A. Adams, 1860
Type species
Syrnola gracillima
Adams, A., 1860
Synonyms
  • Heida Dall, 1903
  • Obeliscus (Syrnola)
  • Odontostomia (Syrnola) A. Adams, 1860
  • Odostomia (Heida) Dall, 1903
  • Pyramidella (Syrnola) A. Adams, 1860
  • † Syrnola (Loxoptyxis) Cossmann, 1888 · alternate representation
  • † Syrnola (Pachysyrnola) Cossmann, 1907· alternate representation

Syrnola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Turbonillinae of the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

General description

The species in Syrnola are medium-sized and slender. Their shell is subulate and polished, marked by fine lines of growth and microscopic spiral striations. It doesn't contain an umbilicus. The whorls of the teleoconch are flattened and increasing regularly in size. The suture is well marked. The aperture is suboval. The outer lip is simple. They possess only one columellar fold.

Species

Species within the genus Syrnola include:

Synonyms

References

  1. A. Adams. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vi, p. 334,1860
  2. ^ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Syrnola A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138419 on 5 February 2012
  3. Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
  4. Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  5. Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
  6. G.W. Tryon, Manual of Conchology vol. VIII, p. 10 and p. 296; 1886
  7. Fishbase: Syrnola adamsi
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Robba, E. (2013). Tertiary and Quaternary fossil pyramidelloidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica. 144: 1–191.

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Taxon identifiers
Syrnola
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